The Composting Network

Specialties

The Composting Network, LLC provides commercial & residential composting services in the Metro area. Our goal is to help reduce pre-​consumer food waste in Louisiana by collecting pre-​consumer food scraps such as vegetable peels, fruit tops and cores, coffee grounds, and other materials from local residents, businesses, schools and universities, and restaurants.

The Composting Network, LLC uses these scraps to build naturally-​made compost. The compost we make is used primarily to provide much-​needed nutrients to the fresh, pesticide-​free fruits and vegetables, herbs and mushrooms grown in local community gardens.

Our compost is also sold at several different locations and online.

Participating businesses and restaurants find our compost service to be a reasonable price and convenient. Our Compost Partners also appreciate our real-​time accountability measurement tracking system. Each month, we inform our partners of how much pre-​consumer waste we collected, diverting it from being dumped into a landfill by transforming it into a natural resource.

History

Established in 2010.

When he was working to get the nonprofit NOLA Green Roots up and running a few years ago, Joe Brock kept hitting a barrier.

Although the facility where he taught local and out-​of-​town groups how to build community gardens was a success, Brock inevitably would find himself with a shortage of compost to use in the garden beds.

«As fast as we’d make it, we’d use it, or it would sell out,» he said.

Today, Brock owns and operates the Composting Network, a for-​profit company that collects discarded material from local businesses and institutions for a fee, processes it on a large scale into compost, and then sells the product online and through garden centers.